Start the server (if its not already). If you have issues installing please consult the forums or do a Google search.

Once CouchDB is installed open a browser and go to this link: http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/
Futon should open up which is a front end to work with CouchDB. Create a new database called myphpdemo.

Go and download (or GIT clone) PHP-on-Couch from GitHub. Extract the lib folder and put it to wherever you are going to run your PHP project from. For simplicity I put the lib folder in /var/www/couchstuff. I then created a PHP file in the /var/www/couchstuff folder and called it couch.php. Your folder structure should look like this:

Please keep in mind I have only shown a little of what CouchDB and the PHP-on-Couch library can do. Check out the documentation for CouchDB and PHP-on-Couch for more in-depth details. PHP-on-Couch also has some easy to follow example code (with error handling which I left out of this article for brevity).